Greek Quotes · Page 16

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and…

— John Eaton

I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and…

— Freeman Dyson

Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.'…

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common…

— Hippocrates

“Fearful that they would be caught, the young lovers cast themselves into the sea with their stone, saying these words, "May we…

— Rebecca Boucher

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?

— Jeb Hensarling

He raised an eyebrow. "You claim not to know me? Of course I'm Thoth. Also called Djehuti. Also called--" I [Sadie] stifled…

— Rick Riordan

Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the…

— Hermann Weyl

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead…

— Linda Barnes

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

— Jackie Kennedy

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.…

— Edith Hamilton

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spanakopita is a traditional Greek savory pie wrapped in flaky layers of crisp phyllo and filled with spinach and salty feta.

— Sohla El-Waylly

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine;…

— Henry Adams

Without Greek studies there is no education.

— Leo Tolstoy

“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that…

— Homer

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better…

— Epicurus

Sydney: I can do a lot of things, Adrian. And—at the risk of sounding egotistical —I mean, well, I can do a…

— Richelle Mead

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

— Oscar Wilde

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the…

— Edward Wilmot Blyden

And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks…

— Max Muller

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

— Oscar Wilde

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

— Archilochus